How long wilt thou forget me, Lord? (Joseph Stephenson)

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• (Posted 2012-09-03)  CPDL #27090:        (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2012-09-03).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 48 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: The alto part is printed in the alto clef in the source. The only indications of the text in the source are the heading 'Ps. 13th.', the opening words 'How long wilt thou &c.' and the opening of the last line under the bass part, 'Oh never never': in the present edition, the full text has been underlaid editorially. The note on the second half of the second beat of bar 13 in the treble part, shown here as a crotchet C, is printed as a quaver in the source, beamed together with the preceding two quavers (resulting in that bar being one quaver short in the treble part only): the parallel tenor and bass parts are printed correctly. The alto F semibreve on beats 1 and 2 of bar 5 is marked with a flat in the source, which has been editorially understood as a natural.

General Information

Title: How long wilt thou forget me, Lord?
Composer: Joseph Stephenson
Lyricists: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (from A new version of the psalms of David)

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1757 in Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion, p. 36
Description: Setting of Psalm 13 in the metrical New Version. Hymn Tune Index tune number 2620.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 13.